Now, normally, I would have looked and moved on but I was interested in this. A purple chair on a hardwood floor. I have a daughter who would flip for that combination.

I had a little chat back and forth with Vicky and learned that this was part of a much larger project than pictures from her living room!

This was part of an ELT project – this was focused on colours! Follow the conversation at: #eltpics

It turns out that the results are shared via a Flickr group where people are shooting pictures of very distinct colours for use in ELT classes. What a cool concept! Certainly it’s very easy to participate – just find and shoot an image illustrating a particular colour and share. All of the images are available for anyone to use under a Creative Commons license. The full descriptor from the Flickr site is:

A set of photos, based on a weekly theme, taken by ELT teachers, trainers and writers from around the world.
These are, in turn, available free to others in the field of ELT under a CC license.
Anyone interested in joining in can tweet an image with the hashtag #eltpics
For a more detailed explanation of how to join in, see this post.
To learn how to download pictures, watch this screen capture.
For ideas on how to use some of the photos, visit the eltpics blog: takeaphotoand.wordpress.com

If you back your way out of this Colours set, you’ll find all kinds of sets based on different themes.

I really like this concept. Teachers world-wide working together to support each other (and anyone else) and all shared via Creative Commons. Kudos to the group and my sincere thanks to Vicky for dangling the carrot that lead me into this in the first place!

Are your knees knocking at the thought of walking into a classroom for the very first time this fall? Have no fear! We asked our friends on Facebook to share their best pearls of wisdom for new teachers, and they generously sent their inspiration, advice and need-to-know strategies. Think of them as your virtual mentors—like all teachers, we’re here to help one another succeed!

Throughout the year I try to share resources and information with you that I think will be helpful for you. Often times these resources will include links to free eBooks that we make available on a variety of topics. Today, I thought I would post a large collection of eBooks for you here so that you can find them in one place and consume them as you see fit. Also, if you find this list helpful, please share it with your peers and colleagues so that they too can benefit from these resources.

With established personal learning networks running successfully online, thousands of tweets per day revealing new techniques and a new educational app released every five minutes, the e-learning scene might seem overwhelming to somebody who doesn’t know where to start. But if you don’t know your Edutopia from your Edudemic and acronyms like BYOD leave you in the dark, fear not! Here are our answers to some of the most common starter questions e-learning newbies might ask…

E-book, that is. Since the book — Cultivating Change in the Academy: 50+ Stories from the Digital Frontlines at the University of Minnesota in 2012 — is online, its producers could circumvent some of the cost and time associated with print publishing.

A report from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health has found girls in Ontario are nearly twice as likely to be victims of cyber-bullying than boys.

The finding marks the first time the centre asked Ontario students about cyber-bullying in 35 years of surveying youth about their mental health and well-being — and one in five students said they were victimized online.

Viewers and fans of Star Trek may watch simply because they enjoy the show, but there are those that consider the possibilities of what is presented to them onscreen. Time travel, wormholes, replicators, and most of all Aliens may seem like concepts that could never be reality, but there are some that think technology of Star Trek proportions is not only possible, but plausible. In the time since the creation of Star Trek, many scientific theories and discoveries have been made, especially in the technology field.

If you’re not convinced that your organization should have a strategy for going mobile, check out this infographic created by AD60 (and shared by Velvet Chainsaw’s Midcourse Corrections) – 10 Reasons Why You Need a Mobile Site: